Joseph Umstatt (1711-1762)
Concerto pour clavecin en sol majeur
Concerto pour clavecin en fa majeur
Concerto pour clavecin en ré majeur
Concerto pour flûte en sol majeur
Concerto pour flûte en la majeur

Maja Mijatovic, clavecin
Sieglinde Größinger, flûte traversière (instrument d'époque)
Ensemble Klingekunst

"It is, quite simply, excellent, rich in the most beautiful 'affects', wonderfully transparent in sound, with a slight touch of swing in the fast movements that really allows this music to blossom, lively in the allegro, and wonderfully sentimental (but by no means saccharine) in the slow movements." This is what a reviewer wrote to us in his evaluation of this recording before its release. Indeed, these concertos, recorded here for the first time on period instruments, possess a distinctive beauty that makes them "worth the fuss". In these virtuoso and weightless creations, their composer Joseph Umstatt (1711–1762) proves himself a connoisseur and master of the gallant style that took the entire music world by storm at the time – how else could he have spent the last decade of his life as court composer and kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg?